Yesterday something interesting happened to me while working in my library. I sat down to write about the shooting in Santa Fe and stumbled over an article I wrote in 2004 titled, “Should Teens be Executed?”. It appeared on my website cstnews.com and was soon published in a Chattanooga newspaper under the title “Should Children […]

Are all criminals stupid or are all stupid people criminals? Evidently it is true that one has to be a little stupid to choose a life of crime. The following evidence seems to substantiate that fact. James Elliot took his .38 caliber revolver with him to carry out a robbery in Long Beach, California and […]

Every Wednesday I publish one of my earlier columns that I hope will be instructive, informative, inspiring, and maybe infuriating. The following column was first published in 2010: An old college friend asked me recently where I really think America is headed. I basically said that our nation is an out-of-control train running top speed […]